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• lexer: /lek'sr/ n. Common hacker shorthand for `lexical analyzer', the input-tokenizing stage in the parser for a language (the part that breaks it into word-like pieces).
  Some C lexers get confused by the old-style compound ops like `=-'....
• boxed comments: n. Comments (explanatory notes attached to program instructions) that occupy several lines by themselve
  o called because in assembler and C code they are often surrounded by a box in a style something like thi...
• lint: [from UNIX's `lint(1)', named for the bits of fluff it supposedly picks from programs] 1.
  vt. To examine a program closely for style, language usage, and portability problems, esp....
• RE: /R-E/ n. Common spoken and written shorthand for {regexp}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• char: /keir/ or /char/; rarely, /kar/ n. Shorthand for `character'.
  Esp. used by C programmers, as `char' is C's typename for character data....
• legal: adj. Loosely used to mean `in accordance with all the relevant rules', esp.
  in connection with some set of constraints defined by software....
• code police: [by analogy with George Orwell's `thought police'] n.
  A mythical team of Gestapo-like storm troopers that might burst into one's office and arrest one for violating programming style rules....
• gorilla arm: n. The side-effect that destroyed touch-screens as a mainstream input technology despite a promising start in the early 1980s.
  It seems the designers of all those {spiffy} touch-menu systems failed to notice that humans aren't designed to hold their arms in front of their faces making small motions....
• washing machine: n. Old-style 14-inch hard disks in floor-standing cabinets.
  So called because of the size of the cabinet and the `top-loading' access to the media packs --- and, of course, they were always set on `spin cycle'....